Mr D Brian
@dbrian2.bsky.social
UK primary teacher. Interested in fairness/outcomes for all children.
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Deep dive today into the personal accounts of #ADHD and #autistic young people who are not attending school. This work is part of the @grrand-team.bsky.social generously funded by Barts Charity, alongside our brilliant RESTAR youth co-researchers co-delivering creative personalised interviews.
November 1, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Deep dive today into the personal accounts of #ADHD and #autistic young people who are not attending school. This work is part of the @grrand-team.bsky.social generously funded by Barts Charity, alongside our brilliant RESTAR youth co-researchers co-delivering creative personalised interviews.
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If you read one thing this weekend, read this. The way we treat young people who are a little 'different' is endlessly shocking. With thanks and respect to Kate Szymankiewicz.
From theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
From theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘The ward felt like a prison. What had I let them do?’: how my daughter was crushed by a health service meant to help her
Ruth was 14 years old and being treated for an eating disorder when she died after being detained under the Mental Health Act. She wasn’t allowed to see her family for more than a few hours a week. Ho...
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:33 PM
If you read one thing this weekend, read this. The way we treat young people who are a little 'different' is endlessly shocking. With thanks and respect to Kate Szymankiewicz.
From theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
From theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
"...like a good little rule follower, I listened and trusted their advice. I was grateful even, for someone to tell me how to navigate this. Yet, all the while, a little voice inside me knew that Ruth needed something different." www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘The ward felt like a prison. What had I let them do?’: how my daughter was crushed by a health service meant to help her
Ruth was 14 years old and being treated for an eating disorder when she died after being detained under the Mental Health Act. She wasn’t allowed to see her family for more than a few hours a week. Ho...
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
"...like a good little rule follower, I listened and trusted their advice. I was grateful even, for someone to tell me how to navigate this. Yet, all the while, a little voice inside me knew that Ruth needed something different." www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Did this today. It was great. Only the sound of pencil on paper!
This year I've been very specific with my classes about what @adamboxereducation.bsky.social calls "Golden Silence."
As in "when you're listening to me I want Golden Silence - it sounds like.."
Or.
"When you begin writing I want Golden Silence," so say if you need help now.
It's a habit I'll keep.
As in "when you're listening to me I want Golden Silence - it sounds like.."
Or.
"When you begin writing I want Golden Silence," so say if you need help now.
It's a habit I'll keep.
November 6, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Did this today. It was great. Only the sound of pencil on paper!
This is how I plan to keep going as a class teacher when the retirement age goes up.
November 5, 2025 at 7:08 PM
This is how I plan to keep going as a class teacher when the retirement age goes up.
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JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
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Just over a week until publication of my new book on the joys and power of curiosity - the perfect gift for someone interested in maths or politics or archaeology or physics or art or poetry - also ideal for anyone not yet interested in those things who should be.
October 28, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Just over a week until publication of my new book on the joys and power of curiosity - the perfect gift for someone interested in maths or politics or archaeology or physics or art or poetry - also ideal for anyone not yet interested in those things who should be.
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She gave ICE a proper NYC welcome. 😜
October 23, 2025 at 8:26 PM
She gave ICE a proper NYC welcome. 😜
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There's a whole other world out there: www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy...
Private Tutor - London, England, Oxfordshire - Tes Jobs
Tutors International, United Kingdom
www.tes.com
October 21, 2025 at 1:25 PM
There's a whole other world out there: www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy...
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Heartbreaking figures. The causes will, of course, be complex. But a caricatured debate about 'overdiagnosis' is a dangerous distraction when, as @mind.org.uk's @gemmabyrne.bsky.social says here, over half a million under-18s are on mental health waiting lists www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Suicide rates among young people in England rose 50% in 10 years, figures show
Charities accuse government of ‘sliding backwards’ on child mental health after ONS findings
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Heartbreaking figures. The causes will, of course, be complex. But a caricatured debate about 'overdiagnosis' is a dangerous distraction when, as @mind.org.uk's @gemmabyrne.bsky.social says here, over half a million under-18s are on mental health waiting lists www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Big Jim's bike trip to Braemar.
Stick with it to the end. The pay off is worthy of Beckett.
youtu.be/cZk2jV5gJbM?...
Stick with it to the end. The pay off is worthy of Beckett.
youtu.be/cZk2jV5gJbM?...
1976: BIG JIM's Big BOOZY Bike Trip to Braemar | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
youtu.be
October 20, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Big Jim's bike trip to Braemar.
Stick with it to the end. The pay off is worthy of Beckett.
youtu.be/cZk2jV5gJbM?...
Stick with it to the end. The pay off is worthy of Beckett.
youtu.be/cZk2jV5gJbM?...
A certain psychiatrist seems to be having a moment. Entertaining and serious review of his book. substack.com/@sluggish/no...
Are We All Just Having 'Understandable Human Reactions'?
Sami Timimi's new book paints neurodivergent and trans people as dupes of neoliberalism
substack.com
October 19, 2025 at 8:42 PM
A certain psychiatrist seems to be having a moment. Entertaining and serious review of his book. substack.com/@sluggish/no...
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Donald Trump posts a video of himself wearing a crown as he flies a jet with "King Trump" written in gold on it, dumping shit onto protesters in American cities, which rather makes the protesters point for them.
October 19, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Donald Trump posts a video of himself wearing a crown as he flies a jet with "King Trump" written in gold on it, dumping shit onto protesters in American cities, which rather makes the protesters point for them.
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If you've not seen the #waitrose posts ⬇️
Where "volunteering" and work placement schemes are used to exploit chronically ill, disabled and neurodivergent people. It's dire...
All this talk about working people ah? @rachelcdailey.bsky.social
@francesryan.bsky.social
Where "volunteering" and work placement schemes are used to exploit chronically ill, disabled and neurodivergent people. It's dire...
All this talk about working people ah? @rachelcdailey.bsky.social
@francesryan.bsky.social
October 18, 2025 at 5:10 PM
If you've not seen the #waitrose posts ⬇️
Where "volunteering" and work placement schemes are used to exploit chronically ill, disabled and neurodivergent people. It's dire...
All this talk about working people ah? @rachelcdailey.bsky.social
@francesryan.bsky.social
Where "volunteering" and work placement schemes are used to exploit chronically ill, disabled and neurodivergent people. It's dire...
All this talk about working people ah? @rachelcdailey.bsky.social
@francesryan.bsky.social
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The Problem with “Invented Labels"
A Critique of Sami Timimi’s Interview on SEND, Autism, and ADHD
www.davidgrayhammond.co.uk/p/the-proble...
The Problem with “Invented Labels"
A Critique of Sami Timimi’s Interview on SEND, Autism, and ADHD
www.davidgrayhammond.co.uk/p/the-proble...
The Problem with “Invented Labels"
A Critique of Sami Timimi’s Interview on SEND, Autism, and ADHD
www.davidgrayhammond.co.uk
October 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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The Problem with “Invented Labels"
A Critique of Sami Timimi’s Interview on SEND, Autism, and ADHD
www.davidgrayhammond.co.uk/p/the-proble...
The Problem with “Invented Labels"
A Critique of Sami Timimi’s Interview on SEND, Autism, and ADHD
www.davidgrayhammond.co.uk/p/the-proble...
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Thankful to @autisticrealms.bsky.social and @emergentdivergence.com to be first out the gate on the @tesmagazine.bsky.social article
Why ‘invented’ SEND labels are disabling pupils, October 2025..
Suspect won't be the only one.
autisticrealms.com/inclusion-ne...
Why ‘invented’ SEND labels are disabling pupils, October 2025..
Suspect won't be the only one.
autisticrealms.com/inclusion-ne...
Inclusion Needs Recognition, Not Erasure: A Neurodiversity-Affirming Approach | Autistic Realms
When headlines claim that autism and ADHD are “invented labels,” it’s more than rhetoric, it’s erasure. A explores why removing neurodiversity from educatio ...
autisticrealms.com
October 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Thankful to @autisticrealms.bsky.social and @emergentdivergence.com to be first out the gate on the @tesmagazine.bsky.social article
Why ‘invented’ SEND labels are disabling pupils, October 2025..
Suspect won't be the only one.
autisticrealms.com/inclusion-ne...
Why ‘invented’ SEND labels are disabling pupils, October 2025..
Suspect won't be the only one.
autisticrealms.com/inclusion-ne...
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As for this a rebuttal published in ResearchGate describes Timimi's critique of ADHD as a "misrepresentation of the existing scientific literature" based on "faulty logic, selective citation," and "ignorance of the vast literature" on the disorder.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
October 18, 2025 at 12:38 PM
As for this a rebuttal published in ResearchGate describes Timimi's critique of ADHD as a "misrepresentation of the existing scientific literature" based on "faulty logic, selective citation," and "ignorance of the vast literature" on the disorder.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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The TES interview with Sami Timimi reeks of outdated eugenic paternalism dressed up as “critical thinking.” /🧵
Sami Timimi: Why ‘invented’ SEND labels are disabling pupils.....
"Diagnostic labels are medicalising young people for behaviours once considered ordinary and are contributing to unsustainable workload in schools"
Beyond harmful.
www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
"Diagnostic labels are medicalising young people for behaviours once considered ordinary and are contributing to unsustainable workload in schools"
Beyond harmful.
www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
Sami Timimi: Why ‘invented’ SEND labels are disabling pupils
Diagnostic labels are medicalising young people for behaviours once considered ordinary and are contributing to unsustainable workload in schools, argues psychiatrist Sami Timimi
www.tes.com
October 18, 2025 at 12:45 PM
The TES interview with Sami Timimi reeks of outdated eugenic paternalism dressed up as “critical thinking.” /🧵
Shades of this: vm.tiktok.com/ZNdWutNCe/
October 13, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Shades of this: vm.tiktok.com/ZNdWutNCe/
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The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.
Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
October 13, 2025 at 9:58 AM
The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.
Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
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Sometimes I don’t like the term Acquired Brain Injury cause it sounds like you bought the fucken thing. HA!😳😆😆Ian
October 13, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Sometimes I don’t like the term Acquired Brain Injury cause it sounds like you bought the fucken thing. HA!😳😆😆Ian
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There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.
America’s children deserve better than this.
America’s children deserve better than this.
October 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.
America’s children deserve better than this.
America’s children deserve better than this.
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